IGP Disu calls for African collaboration to tackle arms proliferation

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olatunji Disu, has identified the proliferation of tiny arms and airy weapons arsenic 1 of the gravest threats to bid and information crossed Africa, noting that the weapons bash not respect borders.

Disu stated this successful his opening code astatine the opening ceremonial of the Small Arms and Light Weapons Identification and Tracing (SALW-IT) simulation programme successful Abuja connected Monday.

He stressed the request for collaboration among African countries to fortify their corporate capableness successful the identification, marking, registration and tracing of tiny arms, airy weapons and ammunition.

“That menace is clear. The proliferation of tiny arms and airy weapons remains 1 of the gravest dangers to bid and information crossed Africa. These weapons bash not respect borders. They substance terrorism, equipped banditry, kidnapping, communal struggle and organised transgression — from the Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin to each country of our continent.

“Nigeria, similar galore of our sister nations, has borne the quality and economical outgo of this scourge. We recognize — painfully — that ...